BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) - Not many weekends go by where there isn’t something going on in Birmingham. From concerts to comedy shows to live theatre, the Magic City is expanding its footprint in the arts and entertainment world.

"Birmingham has always benefited from having a lot of headlining and major artists come through town. The investment in venues and having more options now, having the amphitheater downtown, the modernization of Legacy Arena has made us more attractive to promoters as well," said Tad Snider, the executive director of the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex. "Those investments are paying benefits in more regular, recurring kind of traffic we’re seeing and some of it is just the strength of the market too. ”

Since 2015, the city says it's taken a different approa

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